Cattle-car



(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet lv I'. B. SHBBLB.

CATTLE UAR.

No. 247,423. Patented Sept. 20,1881.

(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 2. I'. B. SHEBLE.

GATTLB GAR.

Patente@ Sept; 203-1881'.

(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 3.

' F. B. SHEBLB.

QATTLB GAR. No. 247,423. Patented Sept. 20, 1881.

UNITED STATES` PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK B. SHEBLE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CATTLE-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,423, datedSeptember 20, 1881,

Application tiled, March 19, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it-known thatLFREDERroK B. SHEBLE, acitizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,have invented certain Improvements in Cattle-Gars, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Myinvention relats to certain improvements in that class of cars whichare provided with means for supplying the cattle with food and waterduring transportation, one of the objects of my invention being to soconstruct and arrange the troughs, feed-spouts, water-pipes, andoperating devices connected therewith, thattheycan be applied to anyordinary freight or cattle car without material change of the latter, afurther object being to supply water to the troughs of all the cars ofthe train simultaneously, and a still further object being to 'preventwaste of the grain.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure l, Sheet l, is a side view, partlyin section, of a cattle-car constructed in accordance with my invention;Fig. 2, Sheet 2, au end view of the same; Fig. 3, a transverse sectionon the line l 2, Fig. l; Fig. 4, a transverse section on the line 3 4,Fig. l; and Figs. 5 to 9, Sheet 3, detached views, drawn to an enlargedscale, and illustrating features of the invention.

A is the floor of the car, B the roof, and D D' the opposite sideframes, provided withlongitudinal slats, as usual.

In the present instance the car is what is known as double-decked-thatis to say, it has acentral door or partition, A', and is adapted forcarrying sheep in the upper compartment, E, and pigs in the lowercompartment, E'. The central partition, A', is removable, as usual, sothat the car can be readily altered to a single-decked car when cattleor freight are to be transported therein.

At each side of each ot' the compartments E E' of the car are troughs a,which are carried by rods b, the latter being adapted to bearings on theposts of the side frames, D D', and extending from the opposite ends ofthe car to the edges of the doorway. end of each arm b is provided withan operating-arm, b', whereby the trough or troughs which it controlsmay be turned down, as shown in Fig. 4, for receiving grain or water, ormay The outerL be turned hack after the animals have been fed, so as todischarge the surplus water.

The doorways of the car are furnished with the usual sliding doors, F,and each ofthe latter carries a weighted trough, d, which, when the dooris closed, falls into the position shown by full lines in Figs. 3 and 7,the trough being raised to the position shown in Fig. 8 when it isdesired to open the door, and being retained in this elevated positionafter the door is opened by contact with the side frame of the car.

Along` each side of the car, directly beneath the roof, extends agrain-bin, G, these bilis being filled with grain through openings inthe roof7 which openings are provided with covers havingwater-proofjoints. Shortspoutseserve to convey grain from the bins G tothe troughs a in the upper compartment, E, of the car; and longer spoutse pass through the partition A', and serve to convey grain to thetroughs u, in the lower compartment., E'. rPhe passage of grain througheach spout is obstructed by two valves,ff, arranged at a certaindistance apart and controlled by arms projecting from shafts m and u,the arms of the shaft m controlling the valves of the short spouts e,and thearms of the shaft a controlling the valves of the long spouts.The arms on each shalt are so arranged that on the operation of saidshaft the upper valvesf will be open'ed simultaneously with the closingof the lower valvesf, and vice versa. It will thus be seen that acertain amount of grain-that is to say, as much as will be containedbetween the two valves-is fed through each spout, when the valves insaid spout are operated. The amount of grain fed into 4the troughs canthus be accurately governed and waste prevented. The use of the doublevalve iu each spout also guards against loss by leakage through aniniperfectlyclosed valve. l

At each end of the car is a supplementary bin, H, which is, bypreference, divided by a partition into upper and lower compartments,communicating through suitable conduits with the long and shortdelivery-spouts o, so that in case the supply of grain iu the bins Gr iseX- hausted thatin the bin H may be drawn upon.

Extending longitudinally from end to end of IOO the car, some distancebelow the roof-beams, is a partition, h, slatted frames p extending fromthe edges of this partition to longitudinal bars s at the sides ot' thecar, so as to form racks for hay, .the latter being introduced throughsuitable openingsin the roof, and being contained in the space betweenthe partition h and roof A, and between the racks and the bins G abovethe same. When the car is used for ordinary freight, the slatted framesare thrown up onto the partition h, as in Fig. 9, the latter alsoserving as a support for the boards which formed lthe temporarypartition A' ofthe car.

A pipe, fw, extends longitudinallyT through the car, immediately beneaththe central roofbeam, and this pipe projects beyond each end of the car,and is furnished near each end with a globevalve. Suitable branches,extend from the pipe -w to the various troughs in the car. Vhen a trainis made up the pipes of all of the cars composing the train areconnected by sections ot' rubber hose or flexible tubing, and the valvesof all of the pipes are open, eX- cepting that at the rear end of thelast car. Water is permitted to enter or is forced into the front end ofthe pipe on the rst car of the train, and flows through the pipes of allof the cars, and through the numerous branches of these pipes into thetroughs a, so that the waterin g ot' the entire train can beaccomplished at one operation. The supply ot water may be derived fromthe tender of the locomotive and forced through the pipes by a suitablepump 5 but l prefer to connect the front end of the series of pipes w tothe dischargetube of the usual watering-tank at the side of the road,when the train is stopped to supply the tender.

It will be seen that it' the cars are properly supplied with grain whenthe cattle are loaded into the same, the feeding and watering ofthecattle at the proper intervals during their transportation can bereadily effected by a single attendant, or this duty may even be addedto the regular duties of the brakeman, the operation of the Valve andtrough rods by means of the handles at each end ot' the car and theconnection and disconnection of the water-pipe being all that isnecessary.

The arms on the valve and trough rods are weighted at the ends, so as toretain said arms in the positions to which they have been adjusted.

It will be observed that no change in the structure of the usual freightor cattle car is necessary in carrying out my invention, one of my mainobjects-having been to provide cheap and simple attachments which couldbe readily applied to such a car.

In order to prevent the breaking ot' the troughs a by pressure upontheir outer edges, I hang to said edges atintervals bars y, which haveT-headed lower ends adapted to slotted guides t, secured to the sides ofthe car. These bars do not interfere with the free elevation of thetroughs, the T-headed ends ot the bars during such movement sliding inthe guides; but when lthe troughs are depressed the lower ends of thebars rest upon the door of the car and support the troughs.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination of the car provided withgrain-bins, troughs, and delivery-spouts, each of the latter havingduplex valvesff, with a longitudinal rod having at each spout a pair ofarms connected to said valves ff, whereby the vibration of the rod eectsthe simultaneous operation of the upper and lower valves ot' a series ofsaid spouts, as set forth.

2. The combination of the car having grainbins G, upper and lowertroughs a a, longand short discharge-spouts e, with duplex valves ff,and longitudinal rods m n, one adapted to simultaneously operate theupper and lower valves of one of the long spouts, and the other adaptedto simultaneously operate the valves of the short spouts, as specied.

3. The combination ofthe car having grainbius, troughs, anddelivery-spouts, with a sliding door having a pivoted trough, d, as setforth.

4. The combination of the pivoted troughs t of the car with the pivotedsupporting-rods y, and the slotted guides t, for the lower ends of thesame, as specified. y

5. The vcombination of the supplementary grain-bins H and their conduitswith the car having bins G, troughs a, and delivery-pipes e, asspecified.

6. The combination of the car with the .partit-ion IL and slatted framesp, supported by the car sides and partition, but disconnected therefrom,whereby the frames are at liberty to be thrown up onto the platform, asset forth.

ln testimony whercofI have signed my name to this specitication in the.presence of two subscribing witnesses FREDK. B. SHEBLE.

W'itnesses:

J AMES H. KERR, HARRY SMrrH.

